Endangered status sought for manatees as hundreds starve

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Endangered status sought for manatees as hundreds starve

By CURT ANDERSON
November 21, 2022

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Manatees that are dying by the hundreds mainly from pollution-caused starvation in Florida should once again be listed as an endangered species, environmental groups said Monday in a petition seeking the change.

The petition filed with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service contends it was an error to take manatees off the endangered list in 2017, leaving the slow-moving marine mammals listed only as threatened. They had been listed as endangered since 1973.

“The Fish and Wildlife Service now has the opportunity to correct its mistake and protect these desperately imperiled animals,” said Ragan Whitlock, attorney for the Florida-based Center for Biological Diversity.

Under the Endangered Species Act, a species is considered endangered if it is “in danger of extinction throughout all or a significant portion of its range.” A threatened species is one that may become endangered in the foreseeable future.

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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/florida-animals-wildlife-pollution-us-fish-and-service-58f6c4e49a7268eba1fdb534a954ceec

[Deuxcents]

1. I hate reading this. There's a Manatee park not far from me

By the water cooling place on the River n the park is always packed in the cool months. They should never been taken off the endangered list

[secondwind]

2. Looks like this was done under Trump's watch.

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

3. Yes, that is right.

The only green that matters to that asshole TFG is on a golf course or can be folded and carried in a wallet.

But then a lot of Repukes have no concern for the environment or the flora and fauna in it.

It seems hard to believe today that the EPA was created and signed into law under a Republican president, Richard Nixon.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

4. last I read; they were being fed lettuce by humans to prevent starvation